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BARRO (AlJazeera) – At least four police officers have been kidnapped in Ecuador, police say, and explosions have occurred in several cities, a day after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency. Noboa, a former legislator and son of one of the country’s richest men, took office in November on promises to fix the […]

BARRIO (BBC) – Adolfo Macías Villamar, better known as “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful gang which is thought to have been behind some of the deadly prison riots in recent months. He was being held in the maximum security wing of a jail in Guayaquil. The emergency measures include the suspension

BARRIO (Urban Toronto) – A notable trend in mall redevelopment is taking shape in the Greater Toronto Area, whee the owners of shopping centres seek to redevelop with much greater density, particularly adding residential space. They are found across the GTA — from Cloverdale Mall, to Galleria on the Park, to Pickering City Centre —

BARRIO – Sporting Kansas City moved its April 13 home game against Lionel Messi‘s Inter Miami CF to Arrowhead Stadium from the team’s Children’s Mercy Park. The team made the announcement on Monday. Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri has a capacity of about 76,000. It is the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and the

BARRIO (Reuters) – Colombia and Ecuador broke up a criminal organization responsible for sending up to five tons of cocaine per month to the U.S. and Europe and captured the Colombian brothers in charge, the two countries said on Sunday. Colombian police said the Los Curva criminal organization generated more than $2 billion a year

Jose Nuñez Romaniz, a 19-year-old college student from Albuquerque, New Mexico, discovered a bag containing $135,000 in $50 and $20 bills near a Wells Fargo ATM while on a mission to buy socks for his grandfather. Despite the tempting situation, Nuñez never considered keeping the money. Concerned and unsure, he called the Albuquerque police, who

BARRIO (The News) – Netflix Society of the Snow is a true story based on the Uruguayan flight crash in 1972. It is a compilation of hostile events in one of the world’s harshest environments. Directed by J.A. Bayona, who also directed masterpieces like The Orphanage and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the film aimed to tell viewers about the real

BARRIO (Barron’s) – El Salvador last year recorded its lowest murder rate in three decades, the government said Wednesday, hailing President Nayib Bukele’s controversial war on gangs. A total of 154 murders registered in the country of 6.6 million people amounted to a rate of 2.4 per 100,000 inhabitants — down from 495 murders in

BARRIO (AP) – Authorities in Argentina are investigating three men, including a Syrian national, who were detained in Buenos Aires and surrounding areas on suspicion of being part of a terror cell, the government announced Wednesday. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich did not disclose the identity of the men — who were detained over the weekend

The main penitentiary in Santiago, Chile, known as “the Pen,” has a unique population of around 300 stray cats that have lived there for decades. Initially brought in or self-wandering, the cats have become integral to the prison community. Inmates informally adopt, care for, and build relationships with the cats, providing a source of companionship,